"the British steamship ""Tennyson."" The insurance companies were reluctant to pay and began their own investigations which would go on for another year. In his book ""The Man Who Killed Kitchener"", biographer Clement Wood states that Duquesne left for Europe in June 1916 under orders from German intelligence. Duquesne posed as the Russian Duke Boris Zakrevsky and joined Field Marshal Kitchener on ""HMS Hampshire"" in Scotland. Once on board, Duquesne signaled the German submarine that sank the cruiser, thus killing Lord Kitchener. Duquesne made his own escape using a life raft before the ship was torpedoed and he was rescued"
"4 June. Lord Kitchener sailed from Scrabster to Scapa Flow on 5 June 1916 aboard HMS ""Oak"" before transferring to the armoured cruiser HMS ""Hampshire"" for his diplomatic mission to Russia. Shortly before 19:30 hrs the same day, steaming towards the Russian port of Arkhangelsk during a Force 9 gale, ""Hampshire"" struck a mine laid by the newly launched German U-boat ""U-75"" (commanded by Curt Beitzen) and sank west of the Orkney Islands. Recent research has set the death toll of those aboard ""Hampshire"" at 737. Only twelve survived. Amongst the dead were all ten members of his entourage. Kitchener"
"the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986—only divers of the British armed forces may visit these wrecks. With equal legal status, commemorated in a museum by the water is the wreck of the armoured cruiser , which hit a mine when carrying 14 passengers including Lord Kitchener bound for Arkhangelsk, Russia on 5 June 1916 and sank off the west coast of the mainland. The large armoured cruiser went down in fifteen minutes in a heavy storm four days after the Battle of Jutland leaving 12 survivors and 737 dead in 70 metres of water 1.5 miles off steep cliffs"
"– and stripped of his control over munitions and strategy. On 5 June 1916, Kitchener was making his way to Russia to attend negotiations, on HMS ""Hampshire"", when it struck a German mine west of the Orkney, Scotland, and sank. Kitchener was among 737 who died. Kitchener was born in Ballylongford near Listowel, County Kerry, in Ireland, son of army officer Henry Horatio Kitchener (1805–1894) and Frances Anne Chevallier (d. 1864; daughter of John Chevallier, a priest, of Aspall Hall, and his third wife, Elizabeth, ""née"" Cole). His father had only recently bought land in Ireland, under a scheme to"
"of 1914. She was assigned to the 7th Cruiser Squadron upon her return home. She was transferred to the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in 1916 and was present at the Battle of Jutland. Several days later she was sailing to Russia, carrying the Secretary of State for War, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, when she is believed to have struck a mine laid by a German submarine on 5 June. She sank with heavy loss of life, including Kitchener and his staff. Rumours later circulated of German spies and sabotage being involved in the sinking. Her wreck is listed under the Protection"
"War, Lord Kitchener who was leading a military mission to Russia. Three hours after leaving Scapa, ""Hampshire"" struck a German mine and quickly sank. ""Owl"" was part of a large force of ships (consisting of nine destroyers, two yachts and a tug) that set out from Scapa to search for survivors, but only twelve survivors were washed ashore, with 650 men, including Lord Kitchener, killed. In July 1916, the 4th Flotilla left the Grand Fleet, moving to the Humber, to counter German minelayers and to protect British minesweepers in the North Sea. The flotilla, including ""Owl"", moved again to Portsmouth"
"naval mine, while in service as a hospital ship. ""Britannic"" was the largest loss for the company, and also the largest ship sunk during the conflict. 1916 also saw the loss of the liner ""Cymric"" which was torpedoed off the Irish coast in May, and also of the cargo ship ""Georgic"", which was scuttled in December with its cargo of 1,200 horses still on board, after being intercepted in the Atlantic by the German merchant raider . 1917 saw the loss of the liner ""Laurentic"" in January which struck a mine off the Irish coast and sank with the loss"
"the time it was thought that four or five German submarines had been sunk. The destroyer was badly damaged by shellfire from German coast-defence batteries, while one drifter, ""Clover Bank"", was sunk by a mine. On 8 November 1916, ""Zulu"" was sailing from Dover to Dunkirk when she struck a mine, laid by , that exploded under the ship's engine-room. Three men were killed, and the ships stern broke off and sunk. ""Zulu"" was towed to safety in Calais by the French destroyer . It was decided to join the front end of ""Zulu"" with the stern of ""Nubian"", another"
"the first Cunard ship to transport Canadian troops. She was sent in the Gallipoli campaign by the summer of 1915. Then she worked on carrying troops to Bombay later the same year. She returned to the North Atlantic and carried troops from Canada and America in 1916. During a voyage from London to New York, she struck a mine on 19 October 1916 in the English Channel off the Royal Sovereign Lightship of Hastings, East Sussex. laid earlier that day by After attempts to beach the ship and tow her to shore with tugs, her captain realized the ship was"
"The house flag was white with a red rising sun in the centre and the initials ""G L C Co."" in blue capitals distributed around the four corners. SS ""Lanterna"" was a 1,685 GRT collier built in 1882 by the Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co. of Willington Quay, Howdon, Tyneside. On 6 October 1916 a mine sank her in the North Sea off Cromer. All her crew survived. SS ""Coalgas"" was a 2,257 GRT collier built in 1890 by Short Brothers at Pallion, Sunderland. On 5 March 1918 a mine sank her in the North Sea southeast of Orford Ness. All"
"including the Battle of Jutland, and had the distinction of having the same commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Douglas Faviell MVO, all her career. Her hull was painted white to distinguish her, and in the course of her duties she often carried the most important visitors. Of note, King George V travelled to Scapa Flow in 1915 for a two-day review of the Grand Fleet, crossing from Thurso. ""Oak"" also carried Lord Kitchener from Scrabster to Scapa Flow on 5 June 1916 before transferring him to the cruiser ""Hampshire"", which struck a mine shortly before 19:30 the same day, with the"
"HMS TB 11 (1907) HMS ""TB 11 (originally named HMS ""Mayfly) was a ""Cricket""-class coastal destroyer or torpedo-boat of the British Royal Navy. ""TB 11"" was built by the shipbuilder Yarrow from 1905 to 1907. She was used for local patrol duties in the First World War and was sunk by a German mine in the North Sea on 7 March 1916. The ""Cricket""-class was intended as a smaller and cheaper supplement to the large, fast but expensive ""Tribal""-class, particularly in coastal waters such as the English Channel. An initial order for twelve ships was placed by the Admiralty in"
"present with her flotilla at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. She was one of seven destroyers to go with the First Destroyer Flotilla when it was transferred from the Grand Fleet to screen the Third Battle Squadron in November 1916. On 18 February 1917, 50 miles west of Portland Bill, HMAT ""Berrima"" was struck a mine in the English Channel. Four lives were lost, but the greater part of the crew took to the lifeboats and were picked up by ""Forester"". A tow was passed and she was taken under tow into Portland Harbour the next day."
"and promoted to KCB in 1911. He was president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1913 and 1914. He was one of the advisers selected to accompany the Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener on a mission to Russia in June 1916 and perished, aged fifty-nine, with all but 12 others when their ship, , struck a German mine off the Orkney Islands. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Hollybrook Memorial at Southampton, Hampshire. On 15 July 1884, he married Selina Beresford (1859–1938), daughter of Colonel Marcus Beresford MP."
"both vessels struck mines and sank, with heavy loss of life. Nearly a third of ""V191""s crew were killed, 25 men, along 250 out of ""Bremen""s crew of around 300. A week later, a British mine claimed on 23 December, though only seven men were killed in the sinking. While on patrol in the North Sea on 26 March 1916, encountered British naval forces, and the British light cruiser rammed and sank ""G194"", killing 93 of her crew. Sank after striking a Russian mine in the Baltic on 15 August 1916; 15 of her crew were killed. Two boats struck"
"by two mines while trying to rejoin ""Radiant"". Only ""Radiant"" was undamaged and picked up the survivors from the three ships. In total, 12 officers and 240 other ranks were killed from the three ships. There were only seven survivors from ""Surprise""s crew, including her Captain Commander W.A Thompson, who had been blown overboard but was picked up by one of ""Surprise""s boats. 48 of ""Surprise""s crew had been killed. HMS Surprise (1916) HMS ""Surprise"" was a Royal Navy R-class destroyer constructed and then operational in the First World War. She was sunk, with most of her crew in 1917."
"by a mine off Sizewell. All her crew were saved. SS ""Brentwood"" was a 1,192 GRT collier built by S.P. Austin & Co. in 1904. On 12 January 1917 she was sunk in the North Sea by a mine laid by the German minelaying submarine . She sank off Saltwick Nab near Whitby with the loss of her second mate and a fireman (stoker). SS ""Togston"" rescued the survivors and landed them at Sunderland. SS ""Hurstwood"" was a 1,229 GRT collier built by S.P. Austin & Co. in 1906. On 5 February 1917 she was steaming from London to Newcastle-upon-Tyne"
"to deal with the mines. The two ships had destroyed three mines before ""Lightning"" struck another mine, lain by the German submarine , killing 15 of her crew. ""Lightning"" broke in half, the bow section sinking, while the stern was towed back to Sheerness and later scrapped. The ship's captain was absolved of any blame but was advised that he ""might have considered he was in a mine field having already sighted three mines"". HMS Lightning (1895) HMS ""Lightning"" was a of the British Royal Navy, later designated an destroyer, built by Palmers and launched in 1895. Three torpedo-boat destroyers"
"the Grand Fleet, where ""King Edward VII"" served for the next two years. The Grand Fleet conducted numerous sweeps into the North Sea in the hope of catching German vessels at sea, but rarely found action. On the morning of 6 January 1916, while steaming to Belfast for a refit, ""King Edward VII"" struck a naval mine that had been laid by the German auxiliary cruiser . Attempts to tow ""King Edward VII"" to port failed when she took on a dangerous list, so she was abandoned and her crew evacuated to several destroyers. ""King Edward VII"" sank later that"
"Dublin port. She had pens for 275 head of cattle and 500 sheep could be accommodated on deck. She also had refrigerated holds for dairy produce. The steamship SS Liverpool was lost off the south coast of the Isle of Man on 16 December 1916, after hitting a mine laid by a German submarine. The mine had been laid the previous day by U-80 commanded by the 34 year old Kapitänleutnant Alfred von Glasenapp. There were sixteen crewmen of which two were killed. The sole passenger on board also died. The men lost were Daniel Garvey, aged 44, from Finisklin,"
"of 15 degrees, unlike the twin mounts used by British destroyers.) 24 mines could be carried. All eight ships entered service during 1915. They were employed in the Baltic Sea, North Sea and the English Channel. was sunk during a sortie into the Battle of the Gulf of Riga on 16–17 August 1915 with . The two ships ran into several Russian destroyers, which hit ""V 99"" with several shells. In attempting to escape, ""V 99"" ran into a minefield and struck two mines, sinking as a result. Ships of the class took part in the Battle of Jutland, and"
"on 5 June 1916, when HMS Hampshire struck a mine and sank. Lord Kitchener was travelling to Russia. It appears that the order for officers to wear dark jackets with tropical mess kit was never rescinded. 7th Gurkha Rifles had a unique stance for 'Regimental Stand Easy' - this entailed holding the barrel of the rifle in the left hand, whereas throughout the remainder of the British Army and the Brigade of Gurkhas at 'Stand Easy', the rifle was held by the right hand - normally at or about the sights. 'History of the 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha"
"HMS Port Napier HMS ""Port Napier"" (M32) was a minelayer of the British Royal Navy during World War II, which was destroyed on 27 November 1940 in Loch Alsh, Scotland, by an explosion following an engine room fire. The ship was under construction at the Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. shipyard in Wallsend for the Port Line when she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy for conversion into a mine-laying vessel. The ship was clad in armour plate, and her cargo holds were adapted to carry up to 600 naval mines. She was also armed with two guns, two"
"HMS E16 HMS ""E16"" was an E-class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness for the Royal Navy. She was laid down on 15 May 1913 and was commissioned on 27 February 1915. Her hull cost £105,700. ""E16"" was the first E-class to sink a U-boat, , sunk south-west of Karmøy island off Stavanger, Norway on 15 September 1915. ""E16"" was sunk by a mine in Heligoland Bight on 22 August 1916. There were no survivors. Like all post-""E8"" British E-class submarines, ""E16"" had a displacement of at the surface and while submerged. She had a total length of and a beam"
"HMT Crownsin sunk 4 May 1916 with the loss of 11 men,[National Archives] [ Wreck.eu] and the yacht HMY ""Aegusa"". On arriving Cattaro on about 1 May (the date is uncertain), ""U-73"" joined the Pola-Cattaro Flotilla. The minelaying cruises of ""U-73"" in the Mediterranean cannot be reconstructed. The battleship HMS ""Russell"" hit two of the mines and sank. On 7 October 1916 she is reported to have left Pola in Croatia, and the French put down to her the mine sunk off Cape Male on 12 October, as well as a minefield in the Gulf of Salonika, and mines in"
"and also collided, badly damaging ""Undaunted"", shortly after ""Cleopatra"" rammed and sunk the German destroyer . On 24 April 1916, a force of German battlecruisers and cruiser set out from Kiel to bombard the coastal towns of Lowestoft and Yarmouth. Later that day, the German battlecruiser struck a mine, and the resultant radio traffic warned the British of the German operation. The light cruisers and five destroyers of the Harwich Force left port at midnight on the night of 24/25 April, with ""Nimrod"" leading eight more destroyers leaving Harwich at 01:00hr. Five more destroyers joined later. ""Nimrods"" division had just"
"HS Marechiaro Italian hospital ship Marechiaro was a steam ship originally built by an Italian shipping company, but requisitioned for use as an Italian hospital ship during the First World War. On February 21, 1916 she was sunk near the Albanian port of Durrës by a mine laid by the German U-boat . British drifters ""Hasting Castle"" and ""Selina"" saved 104 men from the water while 33 were killed. Other sources mention over 200 casualties. During the war operated as a minelayer, and undertook 7 patrols in this role. Mines laid by ""UC-12"" were credited with sinking 6 ships. One"
"the ship. The cause, whether it was a torpedo from an enemy submarine or a mine, was not apparent. It would later be revealed that the mines were planted in the Kea Channel on 21 October 1916 by under the command of . The reaction in the dining room was immediate; doctors and nurses left instantly for their posts but not everybody reacted the same way, as further aft, the power of the explosion was less felt and many thought the ship had hit a smaller boat. Captain Bartlett and Chief Officer Hume were on the bridge at the time"
"of the Ninth Flotilla, including ""Lark"" set out from Harwich to cover minesweeping operations. ""Lark"" collided with sister ship shortly after leaving Harwich, and the two destroyers, accompanied by , had to return to Harwich. On 3 May 1916, ""Lark"" escorted the minelayer on Operation XX, a combined minelaying operation by ""Princess Margaret"" and the destroyer minelayer and air raid by seaplanes from ""Engadine"" and against the German airship base at Tondern. The minefields were successfully laid without German interference, although the light cruiser and , supporting the operation, shot down the German airship ""L 7"". On 1 June 1916,"
"at and was found by divers from the Army Sub-Aqua Club on 13 May 1996. HMS Pheasant (1916) HMS ""Pheasant"" was a Royal Navy Admiralty M-class destroyer constructed and then operational in the First World War. She hit and was sunk by a mine in 1917. The vessel was built at Fairfield Shipyard on the Clyde and launched on 23 October 1916. On the morning of 1 March 1917 the destroyer was taken part in a standard patrol of the Orkney areas. She departed Scapa Flow to patrol west of the anchorage and contacted a mine. The destroyer sank with"
"HMS TB 12 (1907) HMS ""TB 12 (originally named HMS ""Moth) was a ""Cricket""-class coastal destroyer or torpedo-boat of the British Royal Navy. ""TB 12"" was built by the shipbuilder Yarrow from 1905 to 1907. She was used for local patrol duties in the First World War and was sunk by a German mine in the North Sea on 10 June 1915. The ""Cricket""-class was intended as a smaller and cheaper supplement to the large, fast but expensive ""Tribal""-class, particularly in coastal waters such as the English Channel. An initial order for twelve ships was placed by the Admiralty in"
"HMS Negro (1916) HMS ""Negro"" was an ""Admiralty M""-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was built by Palmers and launched 8 March 1916, but was sunk after colliding with in the North Sea on 21 December 1916; depth charges from Hoste exploded and blew out ""Negro""s hull plating. The ship was the second Royal Navy warship to bear the name Negro with the first being the 1813 ""Negro"", ex-""Niger"". The Admiralty M class were improved and faster versions of the preceding . They displaced . The ships had an overall length of , a beam of and a draught"
"The German light cruiser struck a mine in this minefield on the night of 21/22 April 1916. On the night of 8/9 November 1915 ""Princess Margaret"" and ""Angora"" laid another field of 850 mines to replace the field laid in September, which had been discovered by the Germans. While the minefield was laid successfully, the destroyer , part of the covering force, struck a German mine on the return journey to Harwich. By March 1916, ""Princess Margaret"" was listed as flagship of the Minesweeping Squadron. On 20 March 1916, ""Princess Margaret"", ""Orviedo"", and laid mines in the North Sea approaches"